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The Women's Rights Movement

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women's rights
The rights claimed for women, equal to those of men, with respect to suffrage, property, the professional fields, etc.
women's liberation
A movement to combat sexual discrimination and to gain full legal, economic, vocational, educational, and social rights and opportunities for women, equal to those of men.
Betty Friedan
U.S. women's-rights leader and writer of The Feminine Mystique.
Gloria Steinem
U.S. women's-rights activist, journalist, and editor of Ms. Magazine.
NOW
A women's rights organization founded in 1966. NOW.
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feminism
The doctrine advocating social, political, and all other rights of women equal to those of men.
consciousness raising
A group-therapy technique in which the aim is to enhance the participants' awareness of their particular needs and goals as individuals or as a group.
Equal Pay Act
A 1963 United States federal law amending the Fair Labor Standards Act, aimed at abolishing wage disparity based on sex.
Roe v. Wade
A landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court legalizing abortion.
Executive Order 11375
An 1967 expansion of President Lyndon Johnson's affirmative action policy to cover discrimination based on gender.
birth control
Regulation of the number of children born through the deliberate control or prevention of conception.
reproductive rights
The legal rights and freedoms relating to reproduction and reproductive health.
rape
The unlawful compelling of a woman through physical force or duress to have sexual intercourse.
protest
An expression or declaration of objection, disapproval, or dissent, often in opposition to something a person is powerless to prevent or avoid.
activist
An especially active vigorous advocate of a cause, especially a political cause.

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